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        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nDefendants appeal a decision of the Court of Appeals reversing the trial court in a personal injury case and awarding a new trial to the plaintiffs based on the trial court\u2019s decision to allow a neuropsychologist to testify regarding the medical causation of plaintiff Jannett Martin\u2019s (herein plaintiff) impairments.\nOn 28 November 1990, a truck driven by defendant John Michael Benson and owned by defendant Industrial Electric, Inc., crossed the median and collided with an automobile driven by plaintiff. The parties entered into stipulations that defendants\u2019 negligence caused the collision and that the amount of plaintiff\u2019s medical bills was $100,041.22.\nOn' 27 March 1995, two weeks before the trial began, defendants moved to have plaintiff examined by Dr. Elizabeth Gamboa, a neuropsychologist, for the purpose of updating information on plaintiff\u2019s condition. The motion was allowed. Plaintiffs thereafter filed a motion in limine to exclude Dr. Gamboa\u2019s report and testimony. The trial court denied the motion and permitted Dr. Gamboa to testify. At trial the parties presented numerous expert and lay witnesses as to the proximate causation of plaintiff\u2019s injuries and plaintiff\u2019s damages. Plaintiffs presented testimony from Dr. James U. Adelman, a specialist in neurology, and from Dr. Gary Hoover, a psychologist. When Dr. Gamboa testified for defendant, plaintiffs did not object to her testimony. The jury found that defendants\u2019 negligence was the proximate cause of plaintiff\u2019s injuries and awarded her $50,000 in damages.\nOn appeal to the Court of Appeals, plaintiffs contended that the trial court erred in denying plaintiffs\u2019 motion in limine and allowing Dr. Gamboa to testify. The Court of Appeals agreed.\nThe rule is that \u201c[a] motion in limine is insufficient to preserve for appeal the question of the admissibility of evidence if the [movant] fails to further object to that evidence at the time it is offered at trial.\u201d State v. Conaway, 339 N.C. 487, 521, 453 S.E.2d 824, 845-46, cert, denied,, 516 U.S. 884, 133 L. Ed. 2d 153 (1995); see also State v. Warren, 347 N.C. 309, 318, 492 S.E.2d 609, 613 (1997), cert. denied,-U.S.-, 140 L. Ed. 2d 818 (1998); State v. Hill, 347 N.C. 275, 293, 493 S.E.2d 264, 274 (1997), cert, denied,-U.S.-, 140 L. Ed. 2d 1099 (1998); State v. Wilson, 289 N.C. 531, 537, 223 S.E.2d 311, 315 (1976); T&T Dev. Co. v. Southern Nat\u2019l Bank of S.C., 125 N.C. App. 600, 602, 481 S.E.2d 347, 348-49, disc. rev. denied, 346 N.C. 185, 486 S.E.2d 219 (1997). Thus, by failing to object at trial, plaintiffs have waived their right to appellate review of the admission of Dr. Gamboa\u2019s testimony.\nAccordingly, we reverse the opinion below and remand to the Court of Appeals for consideration of plaintiffs\u2019 remaining assignment of error.\nREVERSED AND REMANDED.",
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      "Frazier, Frazier & Mahler, L.L.P., by Torin L. Fury, for defendant-appellants.",
      "Tharrington Smith, L.L.P., by Michael Crowell, on behalf of the American Psychological Association, the North Carolina Psychological Association, and the National Academy of Neuropsychology, amici curiae.",
      "Bailey, Patterson, Caddell, Hart & Bailey, P.A., by Allen A. Bailey, on behalf of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae."
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    "head_matter": "JANNETT J. MARTIN and RICHARD W. MARTIN v. JOHN MICHAEL BENSON and INDUSTRIAL ELECTRIC, INC.\nNo. 119A97\n(Filed 9 July 1998)\nEvidence and Witnesses \u00a7 671 (NCI4th)\u2014 motion in limine\u2014 failure to object at trial \u2014 admissibility question not preserved\nPlaintiffs\u2019 motion in limine was insufficient to preserve for appeal the question of the admissibility of a neuropsychologist\u2019s testimony where they failed to further object to that testimony when it was offered at trial.\nAppeal by defendants pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 125 N.C. App. 330, 481 S.E.2d 292 (1997), finding error in the trial that resulted in a judgment for plaintiff Jannett Martin in the amount of $50,000 entered 13 June 1995 by Albright, J., in Superior Court, Guilford County, and ordering a new trial. Heard in the Supreme Court 16 October 1997.\nMary K. Nicholson and, Joseph A. Williams for plaintiffappellees.\nFrazier, Frazier & Mahler, L.L.P., by Torin L. Fury, for defendant-appellants.\nTharrington Smith, L.L.P., by Michael Crowell, on behalf of the American Psychological Association, the North Carolina Psychological Association, and the National Academy of Neuropsychology, amici curiae.\nBailey, Patterson, Caddell, Hart & Bailey, P.A., by Allen A. Bailey, on behalf of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae."
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